The Mair Family Museum

06/24/2026

06/24/2026

"What is it? Wednesday!" Can you guess what this object was used for in the past? Please put your guesses in the comment section below. I will post the answer soon. Thanks for playing, everyone. Have fun!

06/22/2026

A beautiful painting of Georgetown Harbour in 1889 by artist Jim Evans..
Jim took inspiration for this painting from a photograph I posted in January of this year. He has added life and colour and has made the scene come alive. Thank you Jim Evans for creating this lovely artwork and for sending me a photo of your beautiful painting.
I have included the clearer image of the photograph that was re-done by Charlie Hansen and I have also included the original photograph.
The building in the centre is the Macdonald Brothers' storage building (1899). It is also the Macdonald brothers' wharf we see. The most notable building is the handsome building standing at the head of our current fishermen's wharf where Freddy and Francie Clory live today. To the left of that building, you can see the Dominion Hotel which was owned by Peter and Frank Solomon and which was eventually moved to Water Street and became Genevieve Solomon's store and is now the Summer Talk gift shop. To the right of the current Clory home is an old sail making loft that used to stand on Wood Lane.

06/20/2026

This cool event is happening next weekend in Georgetown at the Civic Centre (where the old library used to be) and outside. I will post a picture of an old radio I have here in the museum closer to the day.

06/19/2026

Feature Friday! Today's feature in the museum is about Stereoscopes and ViewMasters, which are early visual games, precurser of today's video games.

06/18/2026

The answer for What is it Wednesday!!! Below is my answer video and two pictures of another one that I found online listed on ebay and it says it is a handmade tool for tagging cows or horses ears for identification. Thank you everyone for your guesses.

06/17/2026

"What is it? Wednesday!" Can you guess what this tool was used for in the past? It is a tool that would be used outside. Please write your guesses in the comments below. I will post the answer soon. Have fun guessing.

06/15/2026

Georgetown, PEI street scene from the past (circa 1940s-1950s). This picture is showing the old Macdonald warehouse and store and then the house beyond along Water Street. We think this is Marie MacLean as a young woman, but we are unsure of the exact date. These buildings stood where the empty lot is now on the corner of Water and Kent Streets (the corner where there was a gas station for a number of years, too). The photo was taken approximately in front of where Genevieve Solomon's store is (now Summer Talk gift shop) and looking across the street towards the main street. In the distance, you can see the old Macdonald homestead that still stands on the corner across Kent Street from where these other buildings once stood.
Photo #2: Thank you to Charlie Hansen who has worked his magic to clear up the picture so we can see the details more clearly.

06/13/2026

THE MAIR FAMILY MUEUM WILL BE CLOSED SUNDAY, JUNE 14TH. OPEN AGAIN ON MONDAY, JUNE 15, AT USUAL TIME (9AM -12NOON).
This wonderful old picture of the store window (now the Mair Family Museum) is about 50 years old and was taken by Jake Werner. Thank you, Jake, for sending this picture along to me.

06/12/2026

St. David's Church Picnic, Georgetown, PEI, (circa 1941). There are a lot of people in the picture who, unfortunately, were cut off from the camera lens, but for the faces we can see in the picture, their names are as follows: Back Row: Clarence Stewart, Freddy McLean and Sonny Johnson. Front row: Jim Mair, Mrs. Boyce, Rev. Boyce, Mary Yorston and Janie Llewellyn (MacQuarrie). What a lovely outing that must have been.